Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales, The Magic Egg, sentence 133
Then she turned herself into a pike and began chasing the perch, but every time she drew near to it, the perch turned its prickly fins toward her, so that she could not catch hold of it.
Who acts: dragon, perch · What happens: turn, begin, chase, draw, not catch, hold · To what, where: dragon, perch, time, prickly fins, hold
This is a sentence of «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», The Magic Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, perch), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 turned | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 turned | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 pike | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pike | det |
| 7 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 turned | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 began | cc |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 10 | chasing | chase | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 began | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 perch | det |
| 12 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chasing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turned | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 turned | cc |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 time | det |
| 16 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drew | nsubj |
| 18 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 time | acl:relcl |
| 19 | near | near | ADV | _ | 18 drew | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 drew | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 time | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 perch | det |
| 24 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | nsubj |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | parataxis |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 fins | nmod:poss |
| 27 | prickly | prickly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fins | amod |
| 28 | fins | fin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 turned | obj |
| 29 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 30 her | case |
| 30 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 turned | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 catch | punct |
| 32 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 37 catch | mark |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 so | fixed |
| 34 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 catch | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 catch | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 catch | advmod |
| 37 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 turned | conj |
| 38 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 catch | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 hold | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | dragon | dragon | then | into a pike result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent herself=Theme into pike=Result | ||
| 2 | begin | past | dragon not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | chase | gerund | dragon not said here | the perch | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent perch=Theme | ||||
| 4 | draw | past | dragon | every time not said here | perch | near property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent time=Theme to it=Destination | ||
| 5 | turn | past | the perch | perch's prickly fins | time | toward dragon | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent fin=Theme toward she=Trajectory | ||
| 6 | not catch | could | dragon | hold of perch | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 7 | hold | perch | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales», Project Gutenberg book 29672 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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